Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote:
>
>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card
>> AMD Radeon 6470M.
>
> Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user
> talks about the status of that card in his distribution:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=467b83bbff9b48f6a32dc2c2d06bf452&t=1699832&page=2
>
>> I would like to know how good are the open-source drivers for the AMD
>> Radeon Cards. I read that AMD gives a better support for the open
>> -source drivers than Nvidia. Is that right?
>
> Generally speaking, I'd say that ATI VGA cards/chipsets supported by
> radeon driver (FOSS) use to behave quite well, the main problem here
> is to have a card that is fully supported, you may want to check
> Xorg's driver status page.
>
> In regards to the second question, yes, "radeon" driver is one of the
> most tested (it's older), most advanced and with better overall
> performance of the main FLOSS VGA 3D drivers, which mainly includes
> "intel" (Intel cards) and "nouveau" (nvidia cards).
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
Hi Camaleón,
Thanks for your answer. That post is from April and things may have
changed but it seems that it is not a great idea to buy a laptop with
a switchable graphics card, they are not well supported right now. I
was debating between the Vaio S and the Macbook pro. The Macbook uses
an integrated intel card which should work better with Linux.
Has anybody a good experience with switchable graphic cards?
Thanks,
Dan
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